A good mother is better than a good teacher

Chapter 19 Learning and Practice Reading for the Rise of China (1)
Reading for the Rise of China

Zhou Enlai was a great man who fought for the rise of China all his life.

Zhou Enlai was born in Huai'an County, Jiangsu Province. At the age of 12, he went to Shenyang Dongguan Model School with his uncle to study.He has been studious and good at thinking since he was a child.Once, he was a guest at a classmate's house and went out of the city with his grandfather. He saw that the city wall was riddled with holes and felt very strange, so he asked the grandfather why the city wall here was incomplete.The grandfather told him that it was the traces of guns and bullets left by Tsarist Russia and Japanese imperialists fighting here for the land of China.Zhou Enlai was very angry when he heard this, and secretly made up his mind to study hard and revitalize China.

One day, the principal was in a self-cultivation class. When he was talking about "Living", he suddenly asked, "Tell me why you study?" The students spoke one after another.Some said "in order to learn knowledge and reason", and some said "you can be an official".Some said "you can keep accounts", some said "in order to get rich"... The old principal frowned. He was not satisfied with these answers, and he turned his attention to Zhou Enlai, who was always hardworking and studious.I saw Zhou Enlai firmly replied: "Study for the rise of China!" The principal was very pleased that a teenager who was only ten years old had such a grand ambition, and praised repeatedly: "Well, for the rise of China! For the rise of China! Rise up! Those who have aspirations should follow the example of Zhou Enlai!" The students all had admiration for Zhou Enlai.

In 1917, Zhou Enlai went to study abroad with the great ambition of revitalizing the motherland.Before leaving, he wrote an inscription to a classmate: "Aspirations are everywhere, and I hope to meet you when China takes off in the world." Once again, he expressed his lofty ambition of "studying for the rise of China".

mother heart words
Taking national rejuvenation as our mission and the prosperity of our motherland as our ideal, if all of us have the ambition of Premier Zhou, China's rise will be just around the corner.

book lover burr

On Monday, the teacher announced that he would carry out an activity among the students, requiring each student to take out a few extra-curricular books for everyone to exchange and read.

Little Burr is in a hurry now, he doesn't even have a single extra-curricular book, and when the time comes, all the students will have their books handed over, but he won't have one, what a shame!But the little money he saved in the tin can was not enough to buy a book.How to do it?I can't ask my father for money.Dad works from morning to night every day, and the money he earns is only enough for a family of ten. It is impossible to have extra money to buy books for him.If he saves a little more money every day, he can buy a book in no time.At this time, he remembered the money his father gave him to buy breakfast every day, yes, why not save the money on bread, so that a brand new book would be his after two or three days.

In the next few nights, as soon as he lay down on the bed, he silently calculated how much money he already had and how much money he needed to buy a book. Slowly, he fell asleep and had a beautiful dream.In the dream, he had many, many new books. He looked at this one for a while, and touched that one for a while, not knowing which one to read.He thought in his dream: "How can I read so many books? Let those who have no books come here to read." So many children came to him to read books.The children were holding new books and smiling happily...

On the way to school, he passed the bakery again.The smell of bread hit his nostrils, and he swallowed hard.

The owner of the bakery saw him coming and greeted him kindly: "Little Burr, what bread do you want to eat today? I have butter bread, ham bread, and the new grape sandwich bread."

Little Burr really wants to eat a delicious bread, but his favorite new book is beckoning to him.He hastily lied: "Thank you, I've already eaten." After speaking, he started to run.He wanted to get out of there quickly, to escape the great temptation brought by the scent.

Day by day, Burr Jr. really saved enough money to buy books. He came to the bookstore early in the morning, before the bookstore opened, and Burr was wearing thin clothes, shivering in the cold wind.There is a long row of steps in front of the bookstore. In order to increase the heat, he jumped down and up the steps step by step. Slowly, he felt a little warmer on his body.

After a long time, the bookstore finally opened. Burr walked into the bookstore and said loudly to the clerk in the bookstore, "Auntie, I want to buy a copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales."

The clerk looked at him strangely and said, "Son, do you have that much money?"

"I have, Auntie, look." As he spoke, he lifted up the small tin can containing the money, shook it, and the coins in the tin made a crisp sound.

"Where did you get so much money?" the clerk asked him in disbelief.

"Here's the bread money I saved."

The aunt who sells books smiled, and she took out many books for the book-loving child to choose carefully.

Bought a new book, Burr Jr. was indescribably happy.He hugged the new book tightly to his chest, as if afraid that it would escape, and bounced back home.

When he grew up, Burr, who loves books, finally became a book writer and won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

mother heart words
Books are our spiritual food, and books are the ladder of human progress. We will benefit a lot from being friends with books.Little Burr was hungry and saved money to buy books, and formed an indissoluble bond with books, which is worth learning for every child.

reading schedule

During his work-study program in France, Wang Ruofei worked in a steel factory. In addition to 8 hours of heavy physical labor every day, he also had to squeeze out as much spare time as possible to study.There are only 24 hours in a day, and you have to eat and rest. How can you squeeze the time for reading?Please see Wang Ruofei's work and rest schedule in those years:

morning:

Get up at 5:00
5:30 to 6:30 reading
After 6:30, eat coffee and enter the factory (it takes a quarter of an hour to walk from the dormitory to the factory)

7:00 to 11:30 work
11:30 to 12:30 Lunch
12:30 to 1:00 reading
in the afternoon:

1:00 Entering the factory
1:30 to 5:30 work
5:30 to 6:00 Dinner
6:30 to 9:00 reading
Sleep after 9:30

It can be seen from the table that, apart from eating and sleeping, Wang Ruofei spends almost all his spare time on reading every day, which is really a race against time.

mother heart words
Sometimes the truth does not necessarily require long speeches, and cherishing time does not need to be always talked about, but to formulate plans and implement them into actions.

Two students of famous chess player

There are two young people who want to learn how to play chess. They heard that Yiqiu is the most famous chess player in the country, so they made an appointment to come to Yiqiu's place together and worship Yiqiu as their teacher to learn how to play chess.Yiqiu's lecture content and requirements for these two students are the same.However, because the two young people who learned to play chess have different degrees of effort in learning, the final learning results are also different.

When one of them was learning how to play chess, he listened attentively to Yiqiu's explanation of the basic theories and skills of playing chess. Because he concentrated his thoughts while listening to the lectures, he learned quickly and understood more and more, and gradually mastered the skills of playing chess. He became an excellent chess player; but another young man who played chess was different. Every time when Yiqiu talked about the skills of chess, although he sat there and listened, his mind wandered, and he always felt that he had to There is a big swan flying over, and when the swan is about to fly in front of you, you must prepare your bow and arrow.He always thinks about how to hold the bow, how to nock the arrow, how to aim, and how to release the arrow when the swan flies close, so as to hit the most beautiful whooper swan.Although this young man is also learning to play chess like the previous one, but because he is always inattentive, he is immersed in his own reverie.The result can be imagined, in the end, of course, nothing was achieved, and he returned home in dismay. Is this young man less qualified than that young man?of course not.

mother heart words
Whether you are studying or doing anything else, you must concentrate on it; if you are absent-minded and half-hearted, you will not be able to learn or do well at anything.

Two children who love to paint

Legge and Bill are two children who love to draw.

Bill's mother gave her son a stack of paper, a bundle of pens, and a wall.She told him: "Every one of your paintings must be posted on the wall for all the guests who come to our house to see."

Legge's mother gave her son a stack of paper, a bundle of pens, and a wastebasket.She told him: "Every one of your paintings will be thrown in this wastebasket, whether you are satisfied with it or not."

Three years later, Bill held a painting exhibition: a wall of paintings, bright colors, complete composition, everyone praised.

Leger couldn't exhibit, and the paintings in a wastebasket were thrown away when they were full. Everyone only saw the unfinished painting in his hand.

Ten years later, people were no longer interested in Bill's wall-to-wall exhibitions; Legg's paintings turned out to shock the art world.

People took Bill's paintings off the wall and threw them into the wastebasket; they picked up the paintings that Legg had thrown in the wastebasket and pasted them on the wall.

mother heart words
The work comes naturally.To learn, you must first lay a solid foundation, step by step, and accumulate knowledge to achieve the best learning effect.

Extremely difficult sheet music

Wood is a student in the music department. On this day, he walked into the practice room.On the piano, there is a brand new score.

"Extremely difficult..." Wood flipped through the music score and muttered to himself, feeling that his confidence in playing the piano seemed to have fallen to the bottom and wasted away.

It's been three months!Since I followed this new supervisor, I don't know why the professor has to punish people in this way.

Wood barely pulled himself together, and he began to fight, fight, fight with his fingers... The sound of the piano covered the footsteps of the professor walking outside the practice room.

The instructor is a very famous piano master.On the first day of class, he gave his new students a sheet of music. "Try it!" he said.

The score is quite difficult, and Wood played it jerky, stagnant and full of mistakes.

"Not yet familiar, go back and practice hard!" The professor told the students like this when the class was over.

Wood practiced for a week, and was preparing to be tested by the professor during the second week of class.Unexpectedly, the professor gave him a more difficult score, "Try it!" The professor didn't mention the class last week.

Wood again struggled with the more difficult skill challenge.

In the third week, the more difficult score appeared again.

The same situation continued, each time Wood was stuck in class with a new piece of sheet music, then took it back to practice, then went back to class and was faced with a score twice as difficult, but couldn't catch up On the progress, there is no feeling of familiarity because of last week's practice.Wood felt increasingly frustrated and discouraged.

The professor walked into the practice room.

Wood could bear it no longer.He had to bring up the tremendous pressure he had been under for the past few months to the piano master.

The professor didn't speak, he pulled out the earliest score and handed it to Wood. "Look!" He looked at the students with firm eyes.

The incredible result happened, even Wood himself was very surprised, he could play this piece so beautifully and so exquisitely!The professor asked Wood to try the score of the second class, and the students still performed at a super high level... After the performance, Wood stared blankly at the teacher, speechless.

"If I let you perform the part you are best at, maybe you are still practicing the earliest score, and you won't be at the level you are now..." The piano master said slowly.

mother heart words
In order to pursue advanced knowledge and superb technology, you must bear pressure in your studies in order to continuously tap your potential and improve your ability.

Reeds make pens and ground make paper

Ouyang Xiu lost his father since he was a child, and his mother led him to live a difficult life.When he was a child, he saw other children going to school to study, and he was very envious.He went home and asked his mother:
"Mom, when can I go to school?"

My mother was very happy to hear that, but she was also very sad, because the family had no money to pay the tuition fees, how could the little Ouyang Xiu go to school to study!
"Son, wait a minute, you are still too young, wait a few years."

"Okay." Ouyang Xiu was a little disappointed, he wished so much that he could go to school, after hearing what his mother said, he quietly walked aside and did not speak.

After a while, Ouyang Xiu asked his mother again:
"Mom, can I go to school now?"

Mother's tears are about to flow out, what should I do, there is no extra money at home!My mother said to Ouyang Xiu guiltily: "We can't afford the tuition fees. What should we do? Let's do this. Mom will teach you how to write."

"Okay." Ouyang Xiu said sensiblely, "My mother taught me that I must be better than the teachers in the school. I must study hard."

So, my mother began to teach Ouyang Xiu how to write and recognize characters every day. Ouyang Xiu felt that learning is really interesting. Different strokes are connected together to form different characters, which represent different meanings.

However, because Ouyang Xiu learned to write, the family spent more money on brushes, paper and ink.Mother was very embarrassed, and sometimes shed tears secretly behind Ouyang Xiu's back.However, this cannot escape Ouyang Xiu's eyes.One day, Ouyang Xiu didn't study all day, and he was still not at home. My mother was very surprised, where did this child go?When it was dark, my mother went out to look for him.

When mother walked to the pond, she saw Ouyang Xiuxiu squatting on the ground by the pond, what was he concentrating on doing?Mom is very surprised, what is this child doing, so serious.She didn't call Ouyang Xiu, but quietly walked behind him. It turned out that Ouyang Xiu was practicing calligraphy on the ground with reed stalks.

My mother was very moved, what a child who loves learning and is sensible!Ouyang Xiu found his mother standing behind him, and excitedly said to her, "I learned a few words today, and you see, I invented this reed pen, so I don't need to spend money on paper and pens anymore."

Later, Ouyang Xiu has been studying hard, and finally became a very accomplished writer and politician.

mother heart words
The lack of material is not an excuse to give up learning, and nothing can stop the desire for knowledge.

Diligent Newton

Newton was a great scientist.In astronomy, he discovered the law of universal gravitation.In optics, Newton correctly explained that white light (that is, sunlight) is composed of colored light, thus laying the foundation of spectroscopy.In addition, he made the world's first reflecting telescope, through which we can see the moons of Jupiter.In mathematics, Newton created the binomial theorem and calculus, which promoted the development of mathematical research.In mechanics, Newton explained many mechanical phenomena and established a complete mechanical theory system. Among them, "Newton's three laws" had the greatest influence on the development of modern natural science.

In short, Newton is the founder of modern natural science and occupies a very important position in the history of scientific development.

It is no accident that Newton was able to achieve so many major achievements in science.This is the result of his good observation and thinking, assiduous study.

Newton loved reading since he was a child, was very diligent, and especially liked doing handicrafts. He used the pocket money given to him by his family to buy carpentry tools.He made many exquisite windmills, kites, sundial clepsydra and other practical equipment.Newton paid great attention to observing natural phenomena, and always asked why in his heart no matter what happened.One evening, Newton was enjoying the shade under the apple tree when an apple fell from the tree and landed beside him.After Newton saw it, he felt very strange, why did the apple fall to the ground and not fly to the sky?After concentrated thinking and research, Newton later discovered the law of universal gravitation.

Newton was very diligent. He spent most of his life in the laboratory, sometimes working in the laboratory for 6 consecutive weeks, day and night, until the experiment was completed.

One day, he invited a friend to dinner.But when the friend came, he was still working in the laboratory.My friend was very hungry, so he went to the restaurant and ate a chicken, leaving the chicken bones in the bowl.After a while, Newton came to the restaurant and saw a lot of chicken bones in the bowl. He said in surprise: "So I have already eaten." So he returned to the laboratory to work.

(End of this chapter)